Halloween Craft How-to: Fire Pumpkins

Create an electrifying effect by wrapping your gourds in white lights

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Set your stoop ablaze by stringing white outdoor holiday lights around regular pumpkins. It's a simple way to set a spooky mood—and illuminate your walkway!

Materials:

• Pumpkins in various sizes
• 50-light clear or white outdoor holiday string lights (one string per pumpkin; for a series of pumpkins, use strings that plug into each other, such as Clear 50 Light Set With Brown Cord, $10.99; Bronners.com)
• T-pins
• Outdoor extension cord (if needed)

Starting from the plug end of the lights and leaving enough length to reach an electrical outlet or an extension cord, wrap the lights around the pumpkin horizontally from the bottom up as desired, securing with T-pins between the twisted cords every so often. Pin end of light string to the back or bottom of pumpkin.

For Vertical Design:

Starting from the plug end as above, loop the lights underneath the pumpkin and up toward the stem. Wrap the string 90 degrees around the stem, then back under the pumpkin and up from the other side, securing with T-pins every so often. Repeat all around pumpkin as desired. Pin end of light string to the back or bottom of pumpkin.

Directions are for individual pumpkins. For a series, plug the end of each string of lights into the string on the next pumpkin; leave a plug free at one end of the series to insert into an outlet.